Joshua C. Nordstrom

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Joshua C. Nordstrom was elected as a County Commissioner in 2018 and is currently serving his first term in office. He represents the County Commissioners as a voting member of the Tri-County Council (TCC) for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Commissioner Nordstrom served as the public relations director for Nordstrom Automotive Group from 2010-2018. He grew up in Pocomoke, where he graduated from Pocomoke High School in 1990 and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D.C. in 1995. He is active in the community, serving on the Lower Shore Family YMCA Advisory Board, American Red Cross Board of Directors, Crisfield Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Worcester County Public Schools Education Foundation, Atlantic General Hospital Foundation, and Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of the Eastern Shore.

Commissioner Nordstrom is the former president of the Pocomoke Chamber of Commerce, and former member of the Worcester County Economic Development Advisory Board. Commissioner Nordstrom and his wife, Donna, reside in Pocomoke. They have two children, John and Mary.

The History of Worcester County, MD

Worcester County is the easternmost county within the state of Maryland (view interactive map). Our county seat is the town of Snow Hill. The county was named for Mary Arundel, the wife of Sir John Somerset, a son of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester. She was the sister of Anne Arundel (for whom Anne Arundel County was named), wife of Cecil Calvert, the first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland.

Worcester County is included in the Salisbury, MD-DE Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county includes the entire length of the state's ocean coast and borders the Sinepuxent Bay, Assawoman Bay and Assateague Channel and Bay between the sand barrier islands of Assateague Island and Chincoteague Island. It is home to the popular vacation resort area of Ocean City, founded in 1875, as well as wild habitats on the wilderness areas on Assateague Island and in the Pocomoke River and Swamp.